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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
7
A colorful fragment recalls a frantic ride in Oskaloosa with friends joking about luck at eluding capture. The speaker notes the wild pace and banters over the near miss, hinting at a carefree outing gone famously fast.
A Shakespearean statistician notes the plays total 106,007 limes and 814,780 yards. Hamlet has the most lines, Comedy of Errors the fewest with 1,777. Across the plays there are 1,227 characters, 157 female. Costard in Love's Labor Lost delivers the longest word line.
Two flies converse about their season and living quarters in a barnyard setting. One notes abundant food and no screens while praising a place called Eden as a perfect spot. The chatter ends with plans to return next summer.
A Texas reader extols Postum as safer for a nursing mother and child, noting relief from bilious habits and constipation. The letter cites family-wide preference, includes product origins in Battle Creek Michigan, and promotes The Road to Wellville booklet.
Illinois aims for the Western Intercollegiate Conference championship with a strong return by Hall and Lindgren as coaches. Only four veterans depart, leaving most starters from last season ready to compete. The team trains hard for the November 25 game against Minnesota, a pivotal clash for the title.
Open variety football notes Yale's early games showing strong use of forward passes. Captain Howe and Sid Anderson sparked a 26 to 0 victory over Holy Cross, with open plays and spectacular runs highlighted as the likely path to more wins for Yale.
Jake Daubert of the Superbas has set a season record by never muffing a fairly thrown ball at the initial corner during games. His only errors have come from wild throws to second and fumbles.
The article notes Connie Mack, aged forty nine, may retire as manager of the Athletics this season if the team wins the American League pennant and remains strong for next year. He is a stockholder and would likely become club president, staying home more due to health and family reasons after marrying last fall.
At seventeen Frank Schulte faced his father’s offer of 1000 dollars to quit baseball. The star nicknamed Wildfire resisted, believing in a future with the game and the “Datter” now seen in a new light by his family.
The text riffs on scholastic athletics, football rules, and cross sport trends. It mentions Swindell as a Naps pitcher and base stealer, jokes about a golf tournament named Rye, and notes about aviation, boxing talk in London, and high school substitutions for football. It cites 1911 Carlisle players and Ty Cobb training in a billiard room, with scattered remarks on Yale, British sprinters, Texas recruits, and general sports culture.
Oliver Wendell Holmes urges regular listening to high quality music, comparing repeated concert attendance to a soul cleansing bath. He dismisses fashion as a lure, predicting dormant appreciation will awaken in those who began by observation, asserting everyone carries a harp ready to respond when properly tuned.
A Philadelphia woman recounts years of misdiagnoses and failed treatments for widespread psoriasis before using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After initial relief from itching, she reports marked skin improvement and gloves no longer needed. Free sample offer advertised from Cuticura in Boston.
A small group including Teachers College faculty joined a suffragist march in New York City. A professor led the male contingent and joked about the banner reading, The men vote why not we, reflecting the era's drive for women's suffrage.
An advisory urges careful examination of every CASTORLA bottle for infants and children to ensure safety and proper use, highlighting the remedy as a trusted stomach and bowel aid. It stresses verifying labeling, dosage instructions, and the bottle’s seal before administration.
A Boston query elicited a reply that reads Wrecks to the reckless signaling a sharp if bleak motto. The remark captures the era's cautionary ethos on road safety and public behavior.
Farmers store produce like potatoes beet root carrots and turnips to sell later. They form a long clamp on high ground, dig a shallow ditch lay straw as a base and heap roots into an elongated cone then cover with more straw and turf to protect against frost and damp.
A quirky exchange notes a dog winning first prize at ten shows valued at a thousand marks. The fragment mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with claims to soften gums reduce inflammation ease pain and cure wind colic offering a 25 bottle.
Mrs Inez Lewis of Baring recounts a four month old with severe eczema spreading to the face hands and arms. After using Hood s Sarsaparilla the child recovered and grew into a Realty boy. The ad promotes Hood s Sarsaparilla cures blood diseases and boosts the system with liquid or Sarsataba tablets.
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